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From: Chris Brannon <cmbrannon79@gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
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Cheryl Ann Homiak wrote:
> The only kind of strange thing is that mplayer loads with oss instead of 
> alsa. I can force alsa with -ao alsa but then I seem to always get a 
> 48000Hz sample rate where it varies with the default oss according to what is
> being played or streamed. At any rate, at least I'm not having conflicts 
> between my audio playing and my screenreading.

Just out of idle curiosity, do you have a ~/.asoundrc file?  I had one,
and I wasted way too many hours of my life fighting with it.  I had
some of the ALSA issues that you describe, and they went away when
I deleted ~/.asoundrc.

As an aside, you might consider using /dev/synth for your talking cron
scripts.  This is doubly advantageous.  If you ever decide to go back
to using a hardware synthesizer, your scripts will speak through it.

-- Chris